Fishing gear seller caught in hacker’s net – BBC News Angling Direct, the UK’s biggest fishing shop has been hacked, with users being redirected to a pornography site. it was probably a phishing attack – I could not resist that.
Hallowe’en and maybe the hacker god will return from the dead! – #BeCyberSmart
In 2017 an academic paper1 about printer security highlighted open ports on many different types of printer. The paper was published on Monday 30 January and the following weekend a hacker using the pseudonym Stackoverflowin searched the internet to find vulnerable printers. The hacker then made his way into over …
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The threat is not always from abroad
This online fraud was carried out by a 17 year old boy – not an international hacking group. He made over £2m from impersonating a popular shopping site. Lincolnshire boy has £2m of cryptocurrency seized by police – BBC News
Is that website secure? – #BeCyberSmart
Whenever you are online, it pays to be vigilant. This is especially true when you need to hand over personal information such as your email address via a website contact form. The first thing to look out for is the URL of the website, which should start with https:// This …
Website security
It does not seem that long ago that Google forced a flurry of people needing SSL security certificates for their websites, when they announced they would favour secure websites in their search results – no one wanted to be left out. I even added one to my personal blog – …
